Voodoo
Extreme has dug up the fact that Bethesda Softworks parent company ZeniMax
Media has registered the domain elderscrollsonline.com. This combines with the
recent formation of the MMO-focused ZeniMax Online Studios to offer a pretty strong
suggestion that an Elder Scrolls MMOG is in the works.

My guess is they have this and a Fallout Online or (FOOL) game in the works also.... since they already know Herve (Interplay) can't get his/their Fallout MMOG off the ground because only a complete idiot would lend that man/company millions to develop a Fallout MMOG game.

With every game bethesda does, they never quite finish it by supporting it properly. They are like the EA of developers. They ship it, and then wait 6 months for a patch and then never touch it again and let the mod community fix and make things better. What a great business model.

Bethesda has no experience with MMO's and their games tend to be pretty shallow. Having the same NPC duplicated 30 times is shallow. Having a huge world that is generic looking and having a dungeon look like every the 30 dungeons before it, is not quality, it's quantity and it's shallow.

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This is sort of inevitable but doesn't interest me in the slightest. The only way it would work for me is if they carried on with the single player games as normal while a whole different team did the online rubbish. But then, there ain't as much money in single player RPGs any more, so that probably won't happen. Ho hum.

Lol it has always 'felt' very MMOG-ish. Tell ya though if it's based off Oblivion it'll sell HUGE. It'll be a bore-fest that'll probably be completely dumbed down, have little real choice, little real complexity, but it'll be HUGE.

Well, the ES series has always been a very bland, typical, boring affair...it actually FELT like an offline MMO...and even other fans (I know, I'm a fan of it but hate it, go fig) of the series have agreed me with on this in private away from the slavering fanboys.

The ES series isn't looking good. With Arena it was a revolutionary idea, from then on each game kept getting worse and worse. To me, TES4 was barely passable as an RPG. I beat it twice, and that was stretching it. (the 2nd time was only to go through it fully modded with Obscuro & many others)

The only decent PC RPG I see coming out in the next year would be Dragon Age by Bioware, and that's probably because there hasn't been shit said about it. It could be another Jade Empire.

Looks like I won't have to waste money on PC upgrades, since it's all MMOs and half-arsed singleplayer games coming out next year.

Actually, this is a good thing. It'll attract all the console kiddies who think TES qualifies as good CRPG material, and leave other better MOGs to the adults.

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This seems like a really strange idea. Part of the reason I find the Elder Scrolls games so appealing is that they're great single player experiences. I just don't see their style of games working well in a MMOG style. What is it with everyone trying to replicate WoW's success?